Wearing-apparel



F. WIBERLEY.

WEARING APPAREL.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1, 1919.

1,396,799. Patented Nov. 15, 1921.

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ATT6RNEY UNITED, STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK w nnnnmr, or JAMAICA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO BARTHELS MANUFAC- TUBING oorrrA Y, or GLENDALE, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION or NEW YORK.

WEARING-APPAREL.

To all whom z'tmay concern:

Be it known. that I, FRANK WIBERLEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident ofJamaica, in the county of Queens and State of New York,-have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wearing- Appare], of which the following is a specification.

The invention pertains more particularly to what I designate as a button-hole strip to be applied to garments at one edge portion thereofwhich is to be buttoned to an adjacent portion carrying buttons, whereby the garment Ina be closed.

Oneobject o the invention ishto avoid the necessity of working button-holes in a garment, and Ipreferably accomplish this result by providlng a strip having loops, and whichstrip may be sewed to the edge portion of the garment in such position that the loops may be engaged with the customary buttons and serve as button-holes.

The strip of my invention will preferably be oftwo-ply inclosing a lining, the parts a with buttons. Theloops are of special char being suitably fastened together at the outer edge of the strip and initially left open at the opposite edge thereofso that the strip may receive between its plies theedge portionof the garment to which the stripis tobe applied. On the lining or on the inner ply ofthe strip willbe fastened certain novel loopswhose outer ends, serving as button-holes, are projectedthrough eyelet holes in the inner ply of the strip in convenient position to beconcealed and to be engaged acter in that each is in one integral piece of a woven tape folded over upon itself and comprising two thin fiatend portions and an intermediate portion, constituting the loop proper, which is round or circular in cross-section. The two' flat ends of the tape are utilized as means whereby the folded over tape may be conveniently sewed to the button-hole strip and not leave an unsightly projection or thickness, and the intermediate circular portion of the tape serves as a Speciflcation of Letters Iatent. I

Patented Novi15, 1921.

Application filed ll' uly 1, 1919. Serial No. 308,038.

wardly to expose the fiat ends of the buttonhole tapes where they are sewed to the lining of the strip; r

Fig. 2 is a transverse section, on a larger scale, through the same, taken about on the dotted line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a corresponding view of the same and illustrates the fact that the buttonhole tape may be drawn outwardly through the inner ply of the strip when applying the loop thereof on a button, after which the loop may be retracted inwardly or to normal position, shown in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4is an elevation of the tape before being folded over to create the button-hole loop, and

)Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the same, the tape being shown as having been folded over preparatory to the flat ends being superimposed and sewed tothe fabric of the strip.

In the drawings, designates the buttonhole strip as a whole, 11 the inner ply thereof, 12 the outer ply of said strip, 13 a lining or concealed ply, 14 inner strips serving as a filling at the outer edge of the main strip 10, and 15 a line of stitching by means of which the plies 11, 12, lining 13 and strips14 are sewed together. Preferably the strips 14 are integral with the plies 11,

12 and lining 13 and formed by folding inwardly the outer edge portions of said parts, wherebythere are left no raw edges at the outer edge of the main strip 10. The strips or layers 14 are shown as being three in numberand they afford a very durable outer edge portionjtothe strip 10. a

The button-hole tapes are numbered as a whole 16 and these tapes are preferably sewed to the lining 13 by two lines of stitching 17, but they may be independently secured-t0 the lining 13 or to any portion of the fabric or strip 10 by sewing or otherwise. The button-hole tapes 16 are each in one integral piece and comprise two thin fiat end portions 18 and an intermediate loop portion 19 which is circular in crosssection and serves as a button-hole to engage a button. In the preferred construction of the button-hole strip 10 theflat end portions of the buttonhole tapes are secured to the lining 13, and the loop portions 19 of said tapes are projected through eyelet holes 20 in the inner ply 11 of the strip 10,

as Iillustrate in Fig. 1, said loop portions 19 being concealed by the strip 10, but exposed sufficiently to be engaged on buttons on the opposite edge of the garment employing at one edge the strip 10. The flat end portions 18 of the button-hole tapes may be very quickly and conveniently applied to the fabric of the strip 10, and theyare obviously quite inexpensive and serve as a desirablesubstitute for the working of button-holes along one edge of the garment to be attached to anopposite edge thereof car-.

rying buttons. I preferably secure together the outer edges of the plies or layers of the strip 10 by the stitching and leave the other edges of the layers of said strip unconnected or open, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5 3,-sothatthe strip may receive between its plies the edgeportion of a garment, to which the strip. will be sewed and serve as a subst1- tut for the working of button-holes in the garment. The strip 10 when applied to a garment willfafford, by-means-of the loops 19,suitablebutton-holes for buttonsat an adjoining edge of the garment and said strip 10 serves to conceal the loops 19 and also the buttonsto be engaged by them.

By securing the fiat ends of the buttonholeloopsi to the lining 13 and projecting the loops 19 through theeyelet holes 20,, said loopsl9inay, when applying thejsame to buttons,- be drawn outwardly from between the plies of the strip to a suitable'extent to be conveniently engaged with the buttons, as? Irepresent iii- Fig.7 3. When a loop has been drawnoutwardly, as, shown in Fig. 3, and applied upon a button andthen the garmentistightened on the body, the loop will beiretracted inwardly to its initial position, ,shown in Fig. 2. The button-hole loops by being fastened to a yielding lining 13 thus become adjustable for convenience in applying the same on buttons, and

one benefit of this construction is that by reason thereofthe loops themselves do not have tobe undulylarge and maybe applied tofairly large-sized buttons. When the loops-19 are pulled outwardly, as shown in Fig. 3, they may be applied over buttons of large size and then when retracted inwardly to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, said loops snugly encompass the shank of the button or the threads by which the button may be fastened to a garment. The loops 19 may'alsobe drawn outwardly for convenience in detaching them from buttons of large size.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A button-hole strip for the edge of a garment having buttons at opposite edge thereof, said strip comprising inner and outer plies of fabric sewed together at the outer'edge of the strip and initially open at the other edge of the strip to receive the fabric of the garment and be secured thereto, and a series of independent button-hole tapes secured by sewing between said plies and affording loops to be used as a substitute for button-holes, said loops being projected through said inner ply back from the edge of the strip and concealed by the outer face of the strip, and said button-hole tapes each being an integral woven piece of tape folded upon itself and having ends woven flat for attachment to the strip, and an intermediate portion woven circular in cross-section affording the loop to engage the button.

2. A button-hole strip for the edge of a garment having buttons at the opposite edge thereof, said strip comprising inner and outer fabric plies and a fabric lining and all secured together by sewing at the outer edge of the strip, and a series of independent buttoin hole tapes secured by sewing to said lining and affording loops to be used as a substitute for button-holes, said loops being projected through the inner ply back from the edge of the strip and concealed by the outer face of the strip, and said button-holc tapes each being an integral woven piece of tape folded upon itself and having ends woven fiat for attachment to said lining and an intermediate portion woven circular in cross-section and affording the loop to engage the button.

3. A button-hole strip for the edge of garments having buttons at the opposite edgethereof, said strip comprising inner and outer plies of fabric folded inwardly and sewed together at the outer edge thereof so as to present a finished edge, and a series of independent button-hole tapes secured by sewing between said plies and affording loops to be used as a substitute for buttonholes, said loops being projected through said inner ply back from the edge of the strip and concealed by the face of the strip, and said button-hole tapes each being an integral woven piece of tape folded upon itself and having ends woven flat for attachment to the strip, and an intermediate portion woven circular in cross-section affording the loop to engage the button.

4. A button-hole strip for application to garments having buttons for fastening parts of the garment together, said strip having a series of independent buttoirhole tapes secured by sewing thereto and affording loops to be used as a substitute for buttonholes for said buttons, said button-hole tapes each being an integral woven piece of Queens, and State of New York, this 24th tape folded upon itself and having ends day of June, A. D. 1919.

woven flat for attachment to the strip and 7 an intermediate portion woven circular in FRANK WIBERLEY 5 cross section affording the loop to engage Witnesses:

the button. HERMAN 0mm, Signed at Jamaica, in the county of PAUL DOEPPER. 

